Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Octave Meynier was a French military officer, born on February 22, 1874 at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in France and died on May 31, 1961 at Algiers. He is remembered as one of two officers who took control of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission, which mutinied and rampaged through West Africa in 1899. He fought in the First World War and later launched a number of cross Saharan motorised expeditions. He was the son of Marine officer and French Overseas Minister François Meynier, and father to author and geographer André Meynier.